After the New York Times wondered whether investigative journalist Ronan Farrow was 'too good to be true,' Matt Lauer slams Farrow's book 'Catch and Kill.'
NBC denies Farrow allegations that it paid off employees who said they were harassed by fired “Today” host Matt Lauer.killing Farrow’s Weinstein story to protect Lauer, instead claiming that Farrow’s reporting at the time did not meet the network’s standard for publication.
“In Mr. Farrow’s telling, by the end of July 2017, he had nailed down the story of Mr. Weinstein’s pattern of sexual predation, and the NBC brass had begun to shut him down,” Smith wrote in his latest column. “He has said repeatedly that he had at least two women on the record for his story at the time he left NBC for The New Yorker.
“But NBC has disputed that claim, and an NBC employee showed me what he described as the final draft of Mr. Farrow’s script, as of Aug. 7. It had no on-the-record, on-camera interviews.”After Smith’s critique started to pick up viral steam, New Yorker editor Michael Luo rushed to his writer’s defense Monday via a lengthy Twitter thread accusing Smith of omitting “detailed responses” from the New Yorker “that contradict the narrative he wants to tell.
“Ben claims a central theme [in ‘Catch and Kill’] was whether Weinstein threatened NBC with Lauer info,” Farrow wrote in his own thread. “Not central, and not what the book says. The book establishes a pressure campaign against NBC, including talks between Weinstein and executives as they told me and my producer to stop reporting.
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